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Re:GitHub Copilot by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:49PM (#27681540)
> If they do more for the same cost, they are cheaper. You as a developer will be earning less in relation to the value you create.

Welcome to the definition of productivity increases, which is the only way an economy can increase standard of living without inflation.

Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:00AM (#27684716)
Inflation and productivity might be correlated but neither is a function of the other. Given any hypothetical world where increased productivity leads to inflation, there's a corresponding world equal in all respects except that the money supply shrinks enough to offset that inflation.